Alexander McQueen Resort 2025 Collection

The new McQueen lookbook was photographed in Hatfield, a large country house outside London. There is an oak tree on the property that is said to be the spot where Elizabeth I heard she would become queen. “It’s pretty mega,” said creative director Sean McGirr of the old parsonage, one of whose amazing wooden mantelpieces can be seen in these photos. “I thought of this aristocratic punk – that’s just very McQueen, that’s who he was surrounded by, think of Isabella Blow.”

The late magazine editor Isabella Blow, who bought Lee McQueen’s entire graduate collection, is the subject of a biopic in pre-production. It stars Andrea Riseborough as Blow, Emilia Clarke plays her friend Daphne Guinness and Hayley Atwell takes on the role of Alexandra Schulman, the Vogue editor who employed her. IMDb doesn’t list an actor for McQueen, but he will certainly play a role in the story.

McQueen’s personal biography is as compelling as the clothes he made, and the Saltburn-esque location of this shoot suggests that newcomer McGirr has recognized that fact. The upcoming film could be a boon for him as it has the potential to make a younger generation aware of the extraordinary talent and mystique of the house’s founder.

Being the off-season without the high stakes of a runway show, this collection registers as more street-ready, or perhaps house party-ready, than its fall debut. He said the concept for the shoot was “girls and boys hanging out and wearing each other’s clothes.” The emphasis is on tailoring and everyday statement pieces such as sweaters whose stand-up collars extend past the ears, and leather jackets with lonely proportions above exaggerated peplums, and jeans with denim fringe embroidery adorning the front pockets. T-bar hardware extends the punky feel to bags and shoes.

English school uniforms were the starting point, their aristocratic connotations adapted by the irreverence of tight double-breasted jackets, cargo trousers cut extra loose and shirt collars that reached almost to the shoulders. McGirr said the clothes were designed to be unisex, including the paper bag waist trousers, soft blouses with boho ruffles and cropped cardigans shrunk to leave gaps between the buttons. “I like the idea that you don’t change it,” he explained. ‘If you change it [across genders] it loses its panache.”

The collection’s print is a representation of Velazquez’s portrait of Pope Innocent McGirr is an art lover who likes to spend his trips to New York in the galleries, so it’s tempting to look for Easter eggs in the 17th-century masterpiece. Centuries later, the portrait inspired Francis Bacon’s ‘Screaming Pope’ series, and Google reveals that a study for the famous painting now hangs in another historic English house, Apsley House, in London. The draped dress is the centerpiece of the letter in Pope Innocent’s hand. What message is McGirr trying to send? He said he just liked the idea of ​​the girls and boys at the party “carrying the art off the walls.”